"Wíg" and "wígendra" are Old English words, not Old Norse. "Wíg" has an Old Norse cognate - "víg" - but that's not linguistically connected to "Víkingr".
And that clearly is a cognate with...
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"Wíg" and "wígendra" are Old English words, not Old Norse. "Wíg" has an Old Norse cognate - "víg" - but that's not linguistically connected to "Víkingr".
And that clearly is a cognate with...
You've got to be kidding - this is the guy who wrote The Last Legion, an "historical" novel that had anyone who has the first clue about the Fifth Century rolling on the floor laughing and/or in...
It would have been quicker for you to type, "I have no taste or discernment".
What, apart from Freawaru, Wealtheow, Hygd and Modthryth? :no:
Eh? You seemed well and truly unaware of it just a few posts ago.
THat's very odd. It's not like there was some kind of uncrossable moat through the centre of Europe. Medieval Europe shared...
Yes, it was. Every medieval book on astrolabes, astronomy or cosmology took the knowledge that the Earth was a sphere for granted. John Sacrobosco's book on astronomy was even called De Sphaera...
So now we have Constantine translating the Bible??!! The amazing things I learn on TWC never cease to amaze me ... :laughter:
That's when the copies were made. When the original texts were written is another story. I have an edition of Shakespeare that was printed in 1988. That doesn't mean that was when old Bill wrote...
I didn't question whether he'd be able to go to a Latin Mass in Sydney in the mid-80s, just that he went to one in St Mary's Cathedral. You can still find places where the Tridentine Mass is...
What's he got to do with any "editing" of the Bible?
Well, I'm thinking "how strange" right now, because the idea of you stumbling across a Tridentine Mass (ie in Latin) at St Mary's in the mid-80s is a bit surreal. There is a small group called the...
You forgot about those "pyramids" in Bosnia and the ancient Egyptian light bulbs. But other than that, you've managed to summarise just about all the "amazing, suppressed knowledge" that has been...
Well so do the Catholics. If Boofhead's description of the Mass he went to is accurate then he must have got there via a time machine that took him back to sometime before 1965. Masses in Latin are...
How about a properly trained witch-doctor or medicine man?
A "properly trained priest"? "Properly trained" in what - advanced demon identification? Do you have the number of any "properly...
As I think has been acknowledged at least once on this thread, Bohemond was an exception to this and a number of other rules that actually hold fairly true about the bulk of those who took the cross....
This is hilarious stuff. Seriously, I haven’t laughed so much in months – by the time I got to the end of pranicmeagan’s post I was literally weeping with laughter. Either her post is a brilliant...
You did more than just leave your "thoughts", you tried to tell me in no uncertain terms that I was wrong, stated that my knowledge on the topic in question was limited and then proceeded to quote...
Checking on pregnant horses in New Zealand from the comfort of an armchair in Australia isn't supernatural?
I don't think anyone mentioned "debunking" here.
Pranicmegan seems to think...
Absolutely. (Former) parapsychologist Susan Blackmore had an OBE many years ago which set her on the path of becoming a parapsychologist and devoting herself to the study of the more esoteric...
I'm a fast typist with a good memory and a massive collection of books on history. And I do get time to do other things as well. Like hold down a fairly high powered job, have a relationship and a...
Amen to that. If the “they were only after land and loot” idea is one bad modern misinterpretation of the Crusades, the “they were just reconquering land occupied by the wicked Muslims” one is...
Elton's research on the subject was seminal and changed previous thinking on the subject. If you are capable of changing it back again, I'm sure Oxford University Press would love to hear from you....
Brain-dead New Ager drones will happily latch onto any nonsense, so long as it's suitably vague and "mystical". By the time 2012 passes without anything much of note happening, they will have found...
I've said all that many, many times. Over and over again. I've done more than that - I've detailed the arguments and evidence that show that the old "barbarisation" assumption doesn't stand up to...
Yes, because if you could be "bothered" you'd be able to singlehandedly rescue the "barbarisation" theory from the trashcan of history and leave us all in broad disarray. Lucky for us you can't be...
Ditto for the Late Roman Army. The "barbarisation" stuff assumed by Nineteenth Century writers is simply not supported by the evidence.
Because by 451 what little was left of the Western...
If either of those channels have told you that Hitler didn't serve in WWI then it's definitely time to stop watching those channels. But I suspect it's more likely you've misunderstood something one...
Deary me, how very frightening! :( :( :( :(
That's very polite of you, thanks David. :thumbsup2
And, yet again, a weird distortion of what I'm saying. No David, the two are quite separate questions, though related. As for the rest of your post, more to follow. But that horrible creaking,...
No – not just your “choice to set aside consensus”, but actually your previous statements questioning that the consensus can even be said to exist.
You declared that the statement that there is...
Evidence please.
Sorry - I just realised who I was responding to. :doh: As you were Rush.
Who is this "tk" person?
Where did I ever state that it was "solely for religious reasons"? My point in this thread, and in every other thread of this kind that has popped up in the last couple of years, is that there is...
A couple of posts ago you complained bitterly when I had accidentally neglected to respond to just one of your points in a long post. Now I’ve posted a comprehensive reply to that point and many...
Good post. Nice to see some substance and detailed analysis, along with some actual knowledge of the period, rather than bald "opinions".
There's a pretty short answer to that question - "No".
Clement V was a sick man who was also fully aware that Philip IV has almost certainly poisoned one of his predecessors while the other had died while imprisoned by the French king. Despite this,...
Yes.
Er, no. I was talking about Pope Urban's motivations in his call for the first Crusade in 1095. At that stage Frederick Barbarossa wasn't on his mind very much due to the fact that he...
Big deal. There's a guy who sits in the park over the road from my building whose "opinion" is that the SAS is coming to get him because of what he knows about the CIA and the aliens. He happily...
Wrong, wrong, wrong and wrong.
Please read the thread before posting.
Or if you want to post things that have aready been argued against in detail in the thread you're posting to, back your...
Ummm, not quite. What I said was that what the Crusades were to become in scope, duration and significance was not and and could not have been forseen by Pope Urban. So to look at them in retrospect...